tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646774204358599442014-10-15T05:56:35.226-07:00Electric Sound BlogntinuumA blog detailing the adventures of ESC in the studio and sometimes in real life.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-35536393435513699012013-05-21T13:05:00.002-07:002013-05-21T13:08:02.923-07:00Hi there. "Songs Dissolved In The Dawn", the proper debut Electric Sound Continuum album is up for pre-ordering on Bandcamp!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3168119520_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3168119520_10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />The page is here:<br /><br /><a href="http://electricsoundcontinuum.bandcamp.com/album/songs-dissolved-in-the-dawn">http://electricsoundcontinuum.bandcamp.com/album/songs-dissolved-in-the-dawn</a><br /><br /><br />After 5 years of procrastination, hard work, toilet visits and Tic Tac consumption the debut LP is finished.<br /><br />This happened yesterday:<br /><br />(mostly female) Fans: "Oh, how does it sound mr. Electric Sound Continuum? Please do tell!!!!!"<br />ESC: "Shut up bitches, buy it and hear for yourselves. Now give me all your money!"<br /><br />But since today is a different day, here are five redeem codes so you can get the album on Bandcamp before release and for free:<br /><br /><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="1" frame="VOID" rules="NONE"> <colgroup><col width="81"></col></colgroup> <tbody><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="17" width="81">es9s-kwkz</td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="17">8h2c-y4t6</td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="17">tclq-bq3k</td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="17">tps9-wzc9</td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="17">k4zk-hcqd</td> </tr></tbody></table><br />Keep in mind that every code works only once, so be quick about it before someone else gets it. If it doesn't work you're shit outta luck. Evil laugh.<br /><br />Redeem the code <a href="http://electricsoundcontinuum.bandcamp.com/yum">HERE</a><br /><br />For those that don't get a code, the album will be released on the 12th of June, 2013.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-82765574533110612132013-02-07T00:21:00.002-08:002013-05-21T13:06:20.131-07:00"Songs Dissolved In The Dawn" more than 63.4% done<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>And it's sounding pretty good too. More news soon, after I'm out of the toilet.<br /><br /></div>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-11654242661925564962012-09-18T03:22:00.000-07:002012-09-18T03:22:04.211-07:00Recording the debut ESC album with friends. Suck it, procrastination.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iCc-0oNiD70/UFhLBYK3RxI/AAAAAAAAB2s/Frs9r8y_Fbo/s1600/1347655918953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iCc-0oNiD70/UFhLBYK3RxI/AAAAAAAAB2s/Frs9r8y_Fbo/s320/1347655918953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Someday you'll be ready, album. Someday!&nbsp;</div>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-49765164830268310032012-08-24T17:59:00.003-07:002013-05-21T13:06:56.474-07:00The release date for the new Electric Sound Continuum album has been decided and it's...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">...June 12th 2013. Without a concrete date to look forward to, the LP will never be done.<br /><br />We have regrouped today and demos are being reworked into something quite different. We still need a lot of time (we have eleven tracks total and they all have to be re-recorded, essentially) but the songs are already written.<br /><br />See you soon.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-62217163812427673172012-07-19T14:02:00.003-07:002012-07-19T14:02:52.486-07:00Spring Semester original soundtrack out now on amazon.com, iTunes, Google Play and probably other places.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008M4I8NC/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342731415&amp;sr=8-1">Here it is on amazon.com</a><br /><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spring-semester-ost/id545454915">Here it is on Apple's iTunes store for people that don't hate their patent-lawsuit-against-everyone schtick yet</a><br /><br />Google won't even allow you to link to it if you're outside the US, so people in the land of the free will have to find their own way there. Screw you, Google. Jelly Bean is awesome though, so thanks. <br /><br /><br />All proceeds will go towards me buying more music software/hardware. Suckers!<br /><br /><br /></div>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-28415857972007258732012-07-08T03:27:00.002-07:002012-07-08T09:11:14.769-07:00Spring Semester OST<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I know that I have been promising that debut LP for ages now but I took a detour this spring to write the soundtrack for a book. A marvelous book that is in Greek (unfortunately for my international readers). This is the <a href="http://earinoexamino.wordpress.com/">book</a> and down here you can find the soundtrack:</div><div style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://f0.bcbits.com/z/31/71/3171749347-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://f0.bcbits.com/z/31/71/3171749347-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X3whctgpOTE/T_lfm-pNL9I/AAAAAAAAA0o/vSqaBiqrVcA/s1600/Electric+Sound+Continuum+Spring+Semester%5BBACK%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X3whctgpOTE/T_lfm-pNL9I/AAAAAAAAA0o/vSqaBiqrVcA/s320/Electric+Sound+Continuum+Spring+Semester%5BBACK%5D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://electricsoundcontinuum.bandcamp.com/album/spring-semester-ost"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Download the soundtrack here</b></span></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can get it for free from BandCamp in any format you could ever wish for. When BandCamp asks for a price just put a 0 (zero) in there and you're golden. Good times. (If you want to put a thousand/a million in there then by all means, I won't try to stop you)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now back to writing that alternate dimension debut ESC album. Which is coming out really soon. I promise.</span><br /><br /><br /></div>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-15453549426713731002011-02-10T08:18:00.000-08:002011-02-10T08:20:58.285-08:00A taste of the forthcoming LP.It tastes like liquorice! Honest!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.kara-moon.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6073.0;attach=4575"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Nova Scotia</span></a><br /><br />It's one of the instrumental tracks from the album. Still a rough mix but structurally almost complete.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-87843559383407994072011-01-27T03:05:00.000-08:002011-01-27T03:21:07.244-08:00Some videos featuring Electric Sound Continuum music.<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/6255436">Video 1</a><br /><br />and<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/18981019">Video 2</a><br /><br />Both are great videos and are (of course) greatly enhanced by the music.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-21077172095942462632010-07-06T09:26:00.000-07:002010-07-06T09:33:21.591-07:00No news from Electric Sound Continuum? You think, buster.It may seem like nothing much is happening in the ESC towers but guess again, asshole. The fact is that the debut LP is progressing rapidly. These are some of the titles of the songs on the LP:<br /><br />Sunny and Sane<br /><br />Meteor<br /><br />The Astronomer's Waltz<br /><br />Fireflies<br /><br />Middle of the Street (yeah, a new mix of the lead track on the Aerial and Trail EP)<br /><br />Nova Scotia<br /><br />... and some others. They are all jazzy, melodic, breezy and not death metally. Main influences are Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson, Steely Dan and your mother. Yes, your mother.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-17373762048696991242010-02-04T15:03:00.001-08:002010-02-04T15:03:24.931-08:00I just got MelodyneYou are all screwed.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-49178083503444660972010-01-22T07:46:00.000-08:002010-01-24T02:27:51.878-08:00You know you're going to be the next indie pop star of the blogosphere......when a video of one of your songs turns up on YouTube with a nice static picture to accompany it. Grizzly Bear did it, Voxtrot did it, The Dirty Projectors did it, Gyorgi Ligeti (probably) did it and now someone did it with "Middle Of The Street". Obviously, I have fans (well, fan) that listen to my songs <span style="font-style: italic;">because</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">they choose to</span>. Man, what a feeling. I feel like picking flowers in a field and chasing unicorns right now. But I won't.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INx4pp6lP7c"> The video in question</a><br /><br />EDIT - whoever posted that video quickly removed it. Why? I was really enjoying its presence on youtube as a fan video. Never mind, I'll make my own video with naked women washing cars and shit.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-88972822370660138412010-01-21T05:45:00.000-08:002010-01-21T05:47:23.589-08:00Electric Sound Continuum has no news to post.Seriously.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-37362919761041905062009-11-29T10:37:00.000-08:002009-12-01T02:59:10.883-08:00A calm, measured look at online music sales.Fuck this shit.<br /><br />Actually, no, don't fuck this shit. I've been reading some blog posts and forum threads recently about online music sales and one thing most people seem to be agreeing on is that no one (by "no one" I mean "no one that participates in those discussions", including me) seems to be selling any music online. Now, I have actually sold a couple of records and some single songs on these online services but if I looked at it as an investment with monetary return, I would have to find a pimp and turn some tricks pretty quick just to break even. Thank FSM that it's just a hobby for me.<br /><br />A lot of people say that piracy is to blame. People won't buy music if they can find it for free on torrents, rapidshare etc. Having lived most of my adult life in Cyprus and Greece, I can certainly sympathize. Musicians download illegal mp3s but expect to make money from their own music. Programmers use cracked versions of software but people that use cracked versions of <span style="font-weight: bold;">their</span> software<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> are assholes. Vampires drink their own blood. Hell, I'm sure that Bear Grylls would drink his own pee in Cyprus. Oh wait, he does that everywhere anyway.<br /><br />While I'm pretty certain that piracy can be partially blamed for this situation, I have a suspicion I'd like to share with my fellow readers/musicians: another thing that hurts online sales is the lack of <span style="font-weight: bold;">songs</span>. Not tracks but songs. Generally, people like to listen to pleasant songs with verse/chorus arrangements and vocals. Pop stuff, with hooks, beats and, optionally, bimbos shaking their asses on videos. Now, I have nothing against bimbos shaking their asses on video (in fact I encourage it) but since most of us are not members of that exclusive bottom-shaking club we have to at least write some songs if we're expecting people to buy something.<br /><br />Glitch-hop, noise country and ambient waltz are all fine by me (I love experimenting with new sounds and forms too) but I don't expect anyone to buy my experimental noodlings. If I want the people that actually buy music online (whatever the percentage) to spend their money on my tracks I'll make sure that I'll publish the ones that a majority of the music-buying public would like to listen to. Is it selling out? Not if I enjoy the tracks myself. In fact, if you want to make money from music professionally, you're just unnecessarily holding yourself back if you make only "difficult" music on principle.<br /><br />Think about it. Rebuttals (I'm sure that there are many and that I'm probably full of shit) welcome. Chocolate cakes and champagne even more so.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-22370500499992928582009-11-29T10:16:00.000-08:002009-11-29T10:32:19.693-08:00Electric Sound Continuum, the debut album update.As some of you probably know (and billions of unwashed masses probably don't) I have been working on the Electric Sound Continuum debut album for a while. Here's some news:<br /><br />1. The album won't be called "Satan Sodomizes The Pope With A Stick That's Been Dipped In Vaseline". Yesterday I visited the local church and I came to the horrible conclusion that it's very long (the name, not the stick). Consequently, the album with be called "Electric Sound Continuum".<br /><br />2. I am probably going to release a single in some months. As Uncut will probably say soon "any song on Electric Sound Continuum's self-titled debut could be a single" so I still don't know which one it's going to be. Whan I say "some months" I mean "yeah right" so don't hold your breath.<br /><br />That's it for now. Since I'm not convinced that anyone is actually reading this blog, the first three people that send me an e-mail saying "I actually read your blog" will get a free (download) copy of the single and the album when they are released. If no-one responds, I'm going to have no choice but to energise my Tachyonic Destructo-Beam and destroy this shithole (ie. the world).E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-38020967496657486912009-08-31T08:09:00.000-07:002009-08-31T10:56:13.158-07:00Ah, to be young and free and have a CD EP on amazon.com<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ncTpibc5L._SL500_AA280_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 280px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ncTpibc5L._SL500_AA280_.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Downloads are OK, but hey! It's on CD! On amazon.com! I'll order a bunch of them and put them in a corner and admire them for 10-12 hours. Daily.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Aerial-Trail-Electric-Sound-Continuum/dp/B002MPQJEM/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1251731369&amp;sr=8-8">Aerial And Trail EP on CD on amazon.com</a><br /><br />It's <span style="font-weight: bold;">melodic</span>! It's <span style="font-weight: bold;">jazzy</span>! It's <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">ultra-expensive</span>! (unfortunately, TuneCore and amazon.com haven't worked out an EP deal yet, so it's priced as a full album, sorry. Obviously, you'd need to be really slow to buy it at this price, asshole*).<br /><br />But it's also <span style="font-style: italic;">there</span>, giving me joy and making me feel like a rock star. Yes, a rock star.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />*how's that reverse psychology working?E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-4143307291161534322009-08-20T06:12:00.001-07:002009-08-20T06:35:53.744-07:00Half-Mute Irene<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Mo5kjnVzR28/So1P61qk4sI/AAAAAAAAABU/YH2IUTQqkWk/s1600-h/Cover+Irene+copy+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 280px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Mo5kjnVzR28/So1P61qk4sI/AAAAAAAAABU/YH2IUTQqkWk/s320/Cover+Irene+copy+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372037802779534018" border="0" /></a>Some noise from my alternate, much noisier and much atonal-er (er...) project, Tristeza Orange.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Download here: <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/5vls1m3xmt">Half-Mute Irene</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Half-Mute Irene</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Or: Elegies For Automated Sampler And Synthesizer</span><br /><br />...in three sections<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fragment 1</span>: Power Lines (0:01-4:38 )<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fragment 2</span>: Radiowaves Of Glory (4:39-6:59)<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fragment 3</span>: Asphodels (7:00-10:07)E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-16011480615888076912009-08-17T06:18:00.000-07:002009-08-17T13:26:43.364-07:00Q-Lat 3 and how I should have announced its release earlier.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pistegamez.net/blog/uploaded_images/q3-737018.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 541px; height: 389px;" src="http://www.pistegamez.net/blog/uploaded_images/q3-737018.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />A while ago, I wrote the music for a freeware game made by <a href="http://www.pistegamez.net/">Piste Gamez</a> called Q-Lat3. The game was recently released so you can get it <a href="http://www.pistegamez.net/game_qlat3.html">here</a>. It's pretty, it's sweet, it's addictive and it contains some rather charming music - not all of it was written by me, though. The title track and another track that plays during the game (the rockier one) were written by Janne Kivilahti, who also designed the game and did the graphics and SFX (and who is a great guy).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8GAr2RxHV8">GAMEPLAY VIDEO<br /></a><br />Here's a <a href="http://www.idealsoftblog.it/2009/08/indie-news-volume-4-assembly-summer.html">review</a> in Italian. I don't know what it says. Possibly that I'm awesome.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-87133673568507502852009-07-23T15:33:00.000-07:002009-07-24T13:15:36.399-07:00Recap: places you can buy/freely download the Aerial And Trail EP<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />Commercial version:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://home.napster.com/ns/music/album.html?album_id=13254208"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Napster</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Electric-Sound-Continuum-Aerial-and-Trail-EP-MP3-Download/11512078.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">eMusic</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ECO77Y/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1245873639&amp;sr=8-3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">amazon.com</span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aerial-and-Trail-EP/dp/B002EC9BDE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dmusic&amp;qid=1245874346&amp;sr=8-4">amazon.co.uk</a><br /><br /><code style="font-size: 1.3em;"><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=eH8NOY8fBFE&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fid%253D320995161%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"><img alt="Electric Sound Continuum - Aerial and Trail EP" src="http://www.tunecore.com/images/buttons/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif" width="61" height="15" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Free version:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/47623"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jamendo</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /></span><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/247190440/Aerial_and_Trail_EP.rar"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Rapidshare</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span></code>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-43782113629712692562009-07-23T15:23:00.000-07:002009-07-23T15:30:31.350-07:00Aerial And Trail also out on Napster.<a href="http://home.napster.com/ns/music/album.html?album_id=13254208">Aerial And Trail on Napster.</a><br /><br />About fracking time too.<br /><br />I think it has been released on all online stores now. Launch party at cosmopolitan Larnaca at somebody else's place (probably the Tefkromat) soon.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-29109825222906715942009-07-23T15:16:00.000-07:002009-07-23T15:22:52.663-07:00Purchase Aerial And Trail EP on iTunes - go on, be an Apple zombie. I guess it will "just work".<div style="border: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0.8em; background: rgb(238, 238, 238) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> <code style="font-size: 1.3em;"><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=eH8NOY8fBFE&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fid%253D320995161%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"><img alt="Electric Sound Continuum - Aerial and Trail EP" src="http://www.tunecore.com/images/buttons/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif" width="61" height="15" /></a></code> </div>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-7885677612635340622009-07-09T09:50:00.000-07:002009-07-09T17:29:05.923-07:00Electric Sound Continuum has teamed up with a fantastic producer to bring you the best album of 2010.Possibly the best album of 2010. As voted by me and my mother.<br /><br />Some information on the producer of the forthcoming LP: He is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Garret Gengler</span> of Champaign, Illinois and he writes the most gentle and beautiful songs for his own project <a href="http://www.worksongs.net/releases">Tomorrow Is Already Here</a> (the title of a Stereolab song - coincidentally, Electric Sound Continuum owes part of its name to the song "Italian Shoes Continuum" by Stereolab). We love a lot of the same things in music, so it's a match made in major 7th heaven.<br /><br />Garret recently worked on Steven Wesley Guiles's album <a href="http://cdbaby.com/cd/stevenguiles">"We Will All Be Lifted"</a><br /><br />Updates on the progress will be posted ir-regularly.<br /><br />I have not decided what the album is going to be called yet, you're welcome to offer your suggestions. Please do not include the following words in your title suggestions: "ketchup", "Apple Macintosh", "sphere" and "sausage". All other words accepted.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE</span> - Working title for the album: "Tales Of Crumbling Love"E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-5174123632850713292009-07-09T09:38:00.000-07:002009-07-09T09:43:07.268-07:00Aerial And Trail is now on eMusic too.Aerial And Trail EP on <a href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Electric-Sound-Continuum-Aerial-and-Trail-EP-MP3-Download/11512078.html">eMusic</a><br /><br />I also wanted to mention that Aerial And Trail is on eMusic.<br /><br />Still to go: iTunes, Napster, Amie Street, lala, Rhapsody, Shockhound and Limewire. If you find it on any of these services let me know so I can update the list. I'll send you a high-quality (.wav) version of the album if you do. I'm nice like that.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-56008795033965556532009-06-24T13:52:00.000-07:002009-06-24T15:06:22.695-07:00Aerial And Trail released on amazon.com a couple of hours ago. Still no cocaine and hookers for me.<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mo5kjnVzR28/SkKVmhqdCJI/AAAAAAAAAAs/fXyud8xTOwA/s1600-h/hooker2.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mo5kjnVzR28/SkKVmhqdCJI/AAAAAAAAAAs/fXyud8xTOwA/s320/hooker2.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351003796373571730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Picture 1: Example of a hooker.</span><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mo5kjnVzR28/SkKXNPWTVBI/AAAAAAAAABE/XF7rVSW9zV8/s1600-h/hookers.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mo5kjnVzR28/SkKXNPWTVBI/AAAAAAAAABE/XF7rVSW9zV8/s320/hookers.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351005560983737362" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Picture 2: Hookers are social creatures<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span><br /><br /><br />WTF!</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Still, on the plus side, I'm going to be staying in a hotel room in Protaras for the weekend and I intend to trash it.<br /></span><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></span>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-60916128706908508852009-06-24T13:04:00.000-07:002009-06-24T17:36:36.985-07:00"Aerial And Trail" is now available on amazon.com<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Holy shit!</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ECO77Y/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1245873639&amp;sr=8-3">Aerial And Trail on amazon.com</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aerial-and-Trail-EP/dp/B002EC9BDE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dmusic&amp;qid=1245874346&amp;sr=8-4">Aerial And Trail on amazon.co.uk</a><br /><br />That's right, people. For just $3.56US/£2.76UK you can download the EP encoded at 256kbps (you also have the option of buying single tracks at $0.89/£0.69 each). If this kind of quality seems like a blow to your audiophile sensibilities, just e-mail me and I'll send you a link to the wave files.<br /><br />Actually, if you buy the thing in its digital form, <a href="mailto:sebastian212000@gmail.com">e-mail me</a> anyway. Not only will you get an e-mail of appreciation from me, the artist, but if I have any physical CDs left (I plan on ordering some from amazon.com On Demand ) I'll ship one to you. I rule.<br /><br />*STOP PRESS*<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Aerial And Trail</span> just got its first review at Jamendo and it calls my music intelligent and stylish. In your face, Scott Walker!<br /><br /><div style="font-style: italic;" class="reviewone_text"><p>I loved the different sounds and feelings to this amazing,class done album, filled with charismatic, very interesting, intelligent,stylish, pop, acoustic, psychedelic, electronic, jazzy music. Filled with great vocals that really bring this music to life. And also love the sound effects as well.<br /></p><p>Rated 4.5/5 stars<br /></p><p>-musictomyears</p><p><br /></p></div>E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164677420435859944.post-45210031604500622512009-06-24T06:17:00.000-07:002009-06-24T14:28:13.110-07:00Holy Vocal Compressor, Batman!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mo5kjnVzR28/SkIn-OL7l3I/AAAAAAAAAAU/JRo5gJ1cDBs/s1600-h/vfxProvoker-shine.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 119px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mo5kjnVzR28/SkIn-OL7l3I/AAAAAAAAAAU/JRo5gJ1cDBs/s320/vfxProvoker-shine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350883257183082354" border="0" /></a> Not specifically related to my music but anyway: this is a vocal compressor called Provoker and it's made by <a href="http://www.vescofx.com/">vescofx</a>. The technical description is this: you're trying to record vocals in the most idiotic way you can think of (and, believe me, I have the market cornered in the sheer number of idiotic ways I have tried to record vocals with) and this effect processor looks at you defiantly and tells you in hushed tones "Go ahead, punk, make my day".<br />Fitting vocals in mixes just got a thousand times easier with this thing. The instructions are simple: push the big knob to make the vocals more present in the mix. According to the programmer, this effect compresses and adds some harmonic excitation/subtle distortion to the signal. Poppycock! (I had written "bullcrap" but I subsequently edited this post to change the word to "poppycock", such is my love for this exclamation). What I imagine happens when using it is Tinkerbell waving her wand over the selected track. I even think I saw her the other day, flying around in FL Studio. Or maybe it was that slutty FL Chan bitch.<br /><br />Anyway, I love it and it just became indispensible to me. I'm surprised that the people at the <a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/">KvR Audio forum</a> still haven't made a 15-page praise post about this marvel.E.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16124579149662925378noreply@blogger.com0